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After topping the Japanese box office for 16 weekends in a row, Disney's Frozen can add one more feat — its very own PlayStation 4. The PlayStation 4 Frozen Limited Edition takes the standard jet black console with a 500GB hard drive and adds a Fr...

'Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul' PS Vita/PSP Game LE Getting Bundled Anime Episode Posted by Chris Beveridge July 11, 2014 at 05:37 PM Bakumatsu Rock We've seen more and more of this in the last few years alongside bundling anime episodes with manga r...

If you were wondering if more new anime announcements were in the cards for Crunchyroll today, then consider this your official joyus confirmation: Bladedance of Elementalers, based on the light novel by Yu Shimizu, will begin streaming soon!

The animeanime. jp website began streaming over five minutes of video from this summer's Rurouni Kenshin live-action films on Friday. The "highlight reel special" aims to acquaint filmgoers with the first film in five minutes.

Prepare for the awakening of burgeoning psychic powers galore as Tokyo ESP joins the ranks of Crunchyroll&rsquo;s streaming anime titles for summer 2014. Tokyo ESP is set to broadcast every Friday starting on July 11, at 11:15am Pacific Time for i...

New anime announcements are par for the course today at Crunchyroll as INVADERS of the ROKUJYOMA! ? begins to stream today. INVADERS of the ROKUJYOMA! ? is set to broadcast every Friday starting on July 11th, at 10:30am Pacific Time for its premiu...

During this morning's Nintendo 3DS Direct for third party publisher games, they started out with a first look at Final Fantasy Explorers and a trailer for the game. The trailer showed off some of the summons, including Ifrit, what looked like Sh...

Are you ready for… an announcement of an announcement? ! Nintendo's teasing a fun one set for Monday, July 14, which is when we can look forward to a new addition to the Super Smash Bros. roster. The reveal will go up via live-stream at 7:00am...

While there isn't a Frozen game for PS4, the Disney movie is getting a PlayStation 4 package with a laser etched Frozen hard drive cover. The limited edition Frozen PlayStation 4 will retail for 42,980 yen and comes out on July 16.

Noitamina's official YouTube channel has posted a four-minute video report of the world premieres of the summer 2014 TV anime Terror in Resonance, which were held at Anime Expo in Los Angeles and Japan Expo in Paris simultaneously on July 5.

Seoul, South Korea's War Museum announced on Thursday that it has cancelled a planned exhibition centered around Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga has been cancelled due to protests ofthe Japanese flag appearing in art being displayed, among other re...

The latest anime acquisition from Sentai Filmworks is Bladedance of Elementalers, AKA Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance. The series will be available soon through select digital outlets&mdash;it was announced for Crunchyroll just a couple hours ago&mda...

Victor Entertainment has posted a short version promotional video for five-member girls rock band Cyntia's 4th single "Shouri no Hanataba wo -Gonna Gonna Be Hot! -. " It will be used as the second ED song for the on-going TV anime Tenkai Knights, ...

All nine members of μ's are as fashionable as they come, and 2PMWorks is teaming up with Love Live! for some pumps inspired by μ's themselves. There are 10 shoe designs in total with one member getting her own pair of shoes plus one special design...

Guillermo del Toro is a Japanomaniac, making it no surprise that his critically acclaimed work "Pacific Rim" is evidently in production talks with Japanese animation companies for an anime scheduled to debut.

Last month a set of futons for smartphones caught our eyes. Considering all the handy gadgets do for us, we agreed it's only fair we help them get the rest they need. After all, don't you enjoy a good's night sleep at the end of a busy day?

Pony Canyon Sets Japanese 'Glasslip' Anime DVD/BD Release Schedule Posted by Chris Beveridge July 10, 2014 at 09:50 PM Glasslip Summer 2014 anime series Glasslip has gotten its marching orders when it comes to the Japanese home video release as Po...

Goro Miyazaki, who is best known as the eldest son of acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki, is teaming up with his favorite singer for the third time. It is officially announced today on July 11 that 27-year-old Aoi Teshima will sing the theme ...

Morning Musume｡'14 is coming to New York City on October 5th for their first stateside concert since AnimeExpo in 2009. Five years after fans from around the world gathered in Los Angeles for the first Hello!

Figure studio Union Creative will be releasing a set of sexy new figures of Levi, humanity's most powerful soldier from the manga and anime series Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin). Officially titled [mensHdge technical statue No.

School terrorism anime Zankyou no Terror has exploded onto the anime scene, delivering a suspenseful plot-driven story filled with bombs of all kinds – though with no service or moe to set the audience on easy mode the story had better be good… Om...

First Impressions - Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus So far, Summer is full of series that are meeting expectations - and that's mostly a good thing. I'm surprised by how happy I am to have Kuroshitsuji back.

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will feature a Mega Evolution for Metagross, the latest issue of CoroCoro magazine reveals. (Thanks, Anime News Network) Mega Metagross will be used by Steven, who evolves the Pokémon using the Mega Brooch.

Another update on the Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter page offers up a look at some of protagonist Beck's various moves. Appropriately titled "Beck Springs into Action," the clips show some of what Beck can do, from basic movements to climbing, dashing, ...

The man behind Sword Art Online, Accel World, and the infamous "Chapter 16. 5″, Reki Kawahara, has visited Los Angeles, California for Anime Expo 2014, and during the event, he got to try out what is considered to be the Nerve Gear's real life cou...

Jul11 Can these girls hit their mark? Lets find out! We can't really go a whole year without another girls with guns type of anime, can we? What will Sabagebu bring to the table this time? And will it hold up better than the previous girls with gu...

「THE GOLDEN DAYS」 The Persona 4 train keeps rolling on in the form of Persona 4 The Golden ANIMATION (to be abbreviated as P4GA from this point forward), and it's a nostalgic re-entry into a much beloved franchise (in Japan at least).

Atlus made a couple announcements for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax today, including news that the fighter won't be region-locked for North and South America. There's also updated cover art and a couple fresh screens, which you can see below.

'Guillermo del Toro' Talks Animated Series Posted by Chris Beveridge July 10, 2014 at 06:24 PM Pacific Rim The recent announcement of a Pacific Rim sequel certainly delighted a lot of fans and news of an animated series even more so.

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